| The Best Photos of the Day |  |  | LONDON.- Two men look at a painting called ?The Spy? by Vasily Vasilevich Vereshchagin, displayed at Sotheby?s auction house in London, Friday, May 25, 2012. The painting, estimated at 800,000-1,250,000 pounds (US$1,253,520- 1,958,625) will go on sale in the Russian Art sale on May 28, 29 and 30. AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth. | | |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| SFMOMA presents "Contemporary painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the Collection" | | Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation funds photography space in the new Scottish National Portrait Gallery | | Christie's announces the most important piece of Isamu Noguchi furniture to ever appear at auction | 
Francis Bacon, Figure with Two Owls, Study for Velazquez, 1963; oil on canvas; 78 x 75 in.; Collection SFMOMA, fractional gift of Helen and Charles Schwab; © 2012 Estate of Francis Bacon / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- On view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from May 18 to August 12, 2012, Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the SFMOMA Collection highlights the continuing vitality of painting over the last fifty years. In the context of the proliferation of photography, film, and new media in contemporary culture, the exhibition showcases the variety of styles and strategies artists have engaged to breathe new life into painting and to explore the medium's expansive possibilities. Organized into galleries that explore various time periods, styles, and themes, Contemporary Painting surfaces debates surrounding abstract and figurative painting, the effects of photography on painting, and investigations of the materiality of painting. Curated by Gary Garrels, SFMOMA Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, these ongoing questions ... More | | 
Edith Tudor-Hart, Demonstration, South Wales, about 1935 (negative). Modern gelatin print from archival negative. Photo: Archive presented by Wolfgang Suschitzky, 2004. Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
EDINBURGH.- The National Galleries of Scotland announced that The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation has made a major donation to the new Photography Gallery in the recently refurbished Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. The Foundation is giving a total of $300,000 (£190,000) over the next three years, which will be used to support innovative displays, exhibitions, research and related publications in the new space. The Photography Gallery, which is the first purpose-built photography space of its kind in a major museum in Scotland, will now be called The Robert Mapplethorpe Photography Gallery after the renowned American photographer. The Foundation has supported NGS in the past with assistance on the major retrospective of the artist’s work at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2006 and through its assistance in helping to create a major holding of Mapplethorpe in ARTIST ROOMS, a collec ... More | | 
Isamu Noguchi, An Important and Unique Table for Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Dretzin, 1948-49, fossil marble, 49 ½” wide, 41 deep, 21 high with fin. Estimate: $800,000-$1,200,000. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2012.
NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's Important 20th Century Decorative Art & Design sale on June 14 in New York will be highlighted by the most important work to appear at auction by Isamu Noguchi: a unique marble table commission made for Mr. & Mrs. Dretzin (estimate: $800,000-1,200,000). The auction will feature an encyclopedic array of the most renowned designers of the 20th Century, with the best examples in each category, including works by Isamu Noguchi, George Nakashima, Armand Albert Rateau, Charles & Ray Eames, Charlotte Perriand, Frank Gehry, Ron Arad, Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne, among others. With more than 130 lots expected to realize in excess of $4 million, the sale will immediately follow A San Francisco Iconoclast: Henry Africa's Magnificent Tiffany Collection, comprising seven beautifully crafted leaded glass lamps valued at $2 million. Leading the sale is a sublime marble table by Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) com ... More |
| Maxfield Parrish: The Retrospective opens at the National Museum of American Illustration | | After New York Historical Society "Beer Here" exhibition tour, hop on over to its bar | | Five recent works by internationally renowned artist Rodney Graham on view at the Vancouver Art Gallery | 
Maxfield Parrish, Venetian Lamplighters, 1924, oil on canvas, 28 3/4" x 18 3/4".© 2012 National Museum of American Illustration™ Newport RI 02840. Photos courtesy Archives of American Illustrators Gallery™ NYC 10075.
NEWPORT, RI.- The National Museum of American Illustration announces a milestone exhibition for the 2012 Summer Season – Maxfield Parrish: The Retrospective – debuting Friday, May 25, and on display through September 2, 2012. Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966) was best known for romantic images with an unmatched richness, captured by his uncanny use of color incorporating ultra-saturated hues and often times an intense cobalt blue. His paintings were created using alternating layers of color and transparent varnish over a monochromatic underpainting, sometimes totaling as many as 60 layers. This incredible technique was superb for period reproductions using the four color printing process. The resultant luminosity of Parrish’s original artworks must be seen in person to be fully appreciated, for they are uniquely breathtaking with great depth and intense colors unmatched by any other artist before or sinc ... More | | 
A color lithograh of “George Ehret’s Hell Gate Brewery”. AP Photo/ New-York Historical Society.
By: Meghan Barr, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP).- Beer was hip in New York long before hipsters were into craft brews, according to a new exhibit at the New-York Historical Society that traces the history of beer all the way back to drunken Colonial times. And it's not your typical staid museum display: There's even a bar at the end of it. "Beer Here," which opens Friday in New York City and runs through Sept. 2, aims to show that beer is steeped in the state's alcoholic history. From a manifest with beer orders for George Washington's troops to the diary of a 14-year-old hop picker, the exhibit capitalizes on the growing popularity of microbreweries and beer gardens. And it makes the case that, once upon a time, New York — once called New Amsterdam — was at the forefront of the American beer scene. "Beer was very important to New Yorkers from the earliest point of colonization," said museum curator Debra Schmidt Bach. "The Dutch have a strong beer tradition, so it was a very common drink in their cul ... More | | 
Rodney Graham: Canadian Humourist features the artist acting out a role that seems comically out of time and place.
VANCOUVER, BC.- Opening on May 26th, Rodney Graham: Canadian Humourist brings together five recent works by internationally renowned Vancouver-based artist Rodney Graham for their first-time exhibition in Canada . In his more than four decade-long career, Graham has become known for his often witty artworks which focus on the legacy, predicaments and vexations of modern life. In this exhibition, Graham’s film and photographic works draw upon sources ranging from Alphonse de Neuville, a nineteenth century French painter of military scenes, to Canadian literary icons such as Pierre Berton and Eric Nicol. As with much of the art Graham has produced over the past two decades, each of the images in Rodney Graham: Canadian Humourist features the artist acting out a role that seems comically out of time and place. The meticulous detail evident in the costumes and settings of these works speaks to an ongoing yearning to locate the present in relation to archetypal moments from the ... More |
| Gilded Age Magic: Rare theatrical posters of Harry Kellar on view at the Hudson River Museum | | Artist William Kentridge selects protégé Mateo López of Colombia for Rolex Arts Initiative | | Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art announces Agnes Wilkie as new Deputy Director | 
Kellar. Chromolithograph poster. Collection of Bjorn Hanson.
YONKERS, NY.- “Annihilation of Space,” “Projection of the Astral Body,”and “Maid of the Moon” are the stuff of scary space phenomena but 1890s newspaper ads declared these feats the “Ne plus ultra of the Magic Art.” At the turn of the 20th century, magicians added their own luster to the booming culture of the American Gilded Age. Performing 10-minute vaudeville line-ups and one-man stage shows, they traveled from city to city laden with the equipment and entourage of a circus, their arrivals heralded with colorful posters and dramatic claims ─ “Thurston the great magician, the wonder show of the universe!” Paying audiences were hooked and magicians elevated from street entertainers to international celebrities. Gilded Age Magic, organized by the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, features rare theatrical posters of Harry Kellar (1849-1922), the “Greatest of Wonder Worker ... More | | 
Mateo López, protégé. Johannesburg, South Africa, 2012. ©Rolex/Marc Shoul.
NEW YORK, NY.- Today Rolex announced that acclaimed visual artist William Kentridge has selected Mateo López of Colombia as his protégé for the 2012-2013 Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative. The program gives exceptional young talents in dance, music, visual arts, theater, literature, and film the opportunity of a lifetime—to work with a master in their field for a year of creative collaboration. Over the next year Kentridge and López will spend up to several months together, exchanging ideas and engaging in an extended creative dialogue. The other five protégés (profiled below) include another artist from South America, three from Europe, and one from Egypt. Joining Kentridge as 2012-2013 Rolex Mentors are Margaret Atwood, Patrice Chéreau, Gilberto Gil, Lin Hwai-Min, and Walter Murch. Colombian visual artist Mateo López, 33, creates installations that draw on his personal recollections of his journeys through South America. His exhibition ... More | | 
Agnes’ career began in journalism, initially in print but quickly moving into broadcasting.
GATESHEAD.- BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art announced the appointment of Agnes Wilkie in the role of Deputy Director. She will take up the position on Monday 11 June and will play a leading role in the direction of BALTIC’s strategic development through external relations, commercial and trading activities, development and communications in order to support the organisation’s vision and objectives. Speaking today about the appointment Godfrey Worsdale Director of BALTIC said: “I am delighted that we have been able to strengthen BALTIC’s senior management team through the appointment of Agnes Wilkie. She brings a wealth of experience that will be invaluable in helping to take BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art forward in to the next phase of its development. The organisation is in the early stages of a number of new initiatives including the ... More |
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| Major installation by the German artist Thomas Kilpper opens at Kunsthal Charlottenborg | | Frist Center presents exhibition by acclaimed Folk and Self-taught Alabama artists | | Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill and Custer headline Legends of the Wild West event at Heritage Auctions | 
Thomas Kilpper, Pavilion for Revolutionary Free Speech, 2011-12. Anders Sune Berg. Installation shot, Kunsthal Charlottenborg.
COPENHAGEN.- This summer Kunsthal Charlottenborg presents a major installation by the German artist Thomas Kilpper, entitled Pavilion for Revolutionary Free Speech. The work was originally created for the Danish Pavilion in the 2011 Venice Biennale, where it took the form of a raised wooden platform attached to the pavilion. Into the wooden floor of this structure the artist carved 33 portraits including images of leading figures – in politics, business, church and media – from Italy, Denmark and other countries. All of them are people who Kilpper believes have been directly or indirectly responsible for promoting censorship, social exclusion or intolerance. The portraits include personalities from our own day including internationally famous figures such as Silvio Berlusconi and Pope Benedict XVI. The Danish personalities portrayed were: Pia Kjærsgaard, the leader of the Danish People’s Party (DP ... More | | 
Louisiana Bendolph. “Housetop” variation, 2003. Cotton and cotton blends, 98 x 68 in. Courtesy Souls Grown Deep Foundation. Photography by Pitkin Studio.
NASHVILLE, TENN.- This summer the Frist Center for the Visual Arts presents two exhibitions exploring parallels between folk and self-taught artists of the American South. Creation Story: Gee’s Bend Quilts and the Art of Thornton Dial includes 44 works—20 quilts by the women of Gee’s Bend and 24 paintings and assemblages by Thornton Dial—drawn primarily from Atlanta’s Souls Grown Deep Foundation’s noted collection of Southern African American art. A concurrent exhibition, Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, features 65 paintings and drawings by the renowned self-taught artist Bill Traylor. Both exhibitions will be on display in the Frist Center’s Ingram Gallery from May 25 through September 23, 2012. Gee’s Bend, a small rural area near Selma, Ala. is known for its unique quiltmaking traditions that date to ... More | | 
Detail of "Custer's Last Rally": The Epic 11 x 20 foot Oil Painting by John Mulvany. Estimate: $200,000 - up.
DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions’ June 10 Legends of the Wild West Signature® Auction is shaping up as the most important auction of its kind ever put together, featuring more than 300 artifacts from the biggest and most important names in the history of the American West. The grouping includes The very 12 Gauge Parker Brothers Shotgun, Serial #48767, that belonged to legendary sharpshooter Annie Oakley, consigned by her relatives (estimate: $100,000+), “Buffalo” Bill Cody’s beloved and trusted Remington .44 revolver (estimate: $200,000+), Custer's Last Rally, 1881, John Mulvany ‘s epic 11 x 20 foot oil painting (estimate: $200,000+), a cultural phenomenon in its time – the only known document in private hands signed by both legendary American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, the men who opened up the West for America after the historic Louisiana Purchase of 1803. “There is immense coll ... More |
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 DeCordova presents Gary Webb's first United States museum exhibition LINCOLN, MASS.- DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum announces it will present British sculptor Gary Webb’s first US museum exhibition next summer. An exciting and established young contemporary sculptor in England, Webb is well-known for his use, often in a single artwork, of myriad materials including steel, aluminum, glass, mirror, plastic, brass, wood, brick, spray paint, fabrics, and assorted found objects. For Gary Webb: Mr. Jeans, on view May 26 through August 12, 2012, deCordova will present a survey of Webb’s recent work including two new outdoor sculptures designed by the artist specifically for deCordova’s Museum Entrance Plaza. Gary Webb: Mr. Jeans is the third in a planned series of major solo sculpture exhibitions to be held each summer at deCordova. Chakaia Booker: In and Out in 2010 and Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture in 2011 support the ... More Auction of Ronald Reagan blood vial canceled By: Gregory Katz, Associated Press
LINCOLN, MASS.- A European auction house Thursday canceled the planned online sale of a vial containing dried blood residue said to be from Ronald Reagan after complaints from the late U.S. president's family and foundation. The PFC Auction house said in a statement that the seller had withdrawn the item, which was linked to the 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan, and plans instead to donate it to the former president's foundation. The statement said the seller, who has remained anonymous, had obtained the vial at a U.S. auction earlier this year. The decision not to sell the controversial item was praised by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation in California, which had earlier announced plans to try to stop the sale through legal ... More Major interdisciplinary exhibition "A House Full of Music" on view at the Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt DARMSTADT.- September 5, 2012 is the 100th birthday of John Cage. Like hardly anyone before him, Cage consistently posed anew the question of the connection of music with other fields of art and everyday life. He takes his place alongside Satie, Duchamp, Paik and Beuys as one of the great strategists and crossover artists who straddled the boundaries of music and art in the 20th century. Coinciding with documenta 13 in Kassel, the major interdisciplinary exhibition A House Full of Music at the Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt focuses especially on these five key artists and present twelve fundamental strategies of music and art since 1900. The exhibition features fascinating as well as enlightening soundscapes, projections, objects, scores, paintings and installations by 110 visual artists, musicians and composers – from Laurie Anderson to Robert Filliou, Anri Sala, Dieter ... More New mapping of Mars by Smithsonian shows western Medusae Fossae formation older than thought WASHINGTON, DC.- Recent geologic mapping of the Medusae Fossae Formation on Mars—an intensely eroded deposit near the northern edge of the cratered highlands—has revealed a wider distribution of its western component than was previously recognized. Crater counts show that the western portions of the MFF are much older than previously thought, originating near the end of the Hesperian geologic epoch on Mars, around 3.5 billion years ago. This means that these deposits were emplaced during the epoch that shows evidence for the wide distribution of water at the surface of Mars. The new mapping also revealed the presence of MFF materials close to Gale crater, the landing site chosen for the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity, en route to an August 2012 landing. The findings are reported in a paper by Smithsonian scientists James R. Zimbelman ... More "Wendy Richmond: Navigating the Personal Bubble" opens at the RISD Museum of Art PROVIDENCE, RI.- The Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design announces the exhibition Wendy Richmond: Navigating the Personal Bubble, featuring new works by multimedia artist Wendy Richmond. Navigating the Personal Bubble opening to the public on Friday, May 25, 2012. “Wendy Richmond’s exploration of ‘public privacy’ is surprisingly revealing of the ways in which we interact and communicate in this digital age,” says Museum Director John W. Smith. “We’re excited to share her observations and discoveries in this video installation created specifically for the RISD Museum’s Spalter New Media Gallery.” Richmond documents and exposes how portable digital technology creates mobile zones of privacy—what the artist calls “personal bubbles”—that change the social experience of being in public. “A primary aspect of public privacy is how we use personal technology to ... More |
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